Pascal Bernabé

Biography

Above all an explorer, it all started for Pascal Bernabé around 20
years ago, exploring hidden French caverns. All the conditions were good: good cave
technique, futuristic dive suits, rebreathers, gas mixes made with helium to go
deeper, underwater scooters to go further, decompression chambers…he explored many kilometers of undiscovered
tunnels between -70m and -250m deep.

To expand new horizons and become even more
versatile he explored deeper wrecks, was part of the safety and filming team of
freedivers Pippin and Audrey Ferreras down to -170m and participated in film
shooting: in the Bahamas he worked with Imax for ‘Oceanmen’ then in Mexico with
James Cameron.

He became a consultant and trainer for cave and
technical diving (deep, mixes, rebreather, underwater scooter) around the
world.

From 2005 to 2014 he held the World Record for
depth scuba diving at -330m which he set on the 5th July 2005 in
Propriano, Corsica.

A rescue diver, he has also been called upon to
help in rescue situations like the case of another rescue diver who was himself
trapped in a resurgence in the Jura Mountains, or in the case of an exploration
robot stick at -174m in the Spring of Vaucluse.

With François Brun he has co-written the ‘Guide
de la plongée tek’ (Guide to Tek Diving) as well as numerous articles for both
French and international magazines.

He has participated in the development of new
dive tables and gases for use in deep diving.